Round 2 pairings
GM Hikaru Nakamura – GM Magnus Carlsen
GM Fabiano Caruana – GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
GM Levon Aronian – GM Veselin Topalov
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Susan Polgar
August 28, 2014
Chess Improvement, Daily News, Major Tournaments, Scholastic Chess
11 Comments
Karma bites Magnus today for calling Nakamura inept!
Nakamura will annihilate Carlsen so badly and send him packing to Norway. Sauron is no match to great Naka. He will find out who the real king of chess is. Don’t panic Sauron.
Lose Carlsen lose. Your facing the best chess player in the universe. What a mismatch.
Nakamura will eat and skinned this kid alive. Naka owns him. Carlsen is past his prime and Naka has been peaking lately, with brilliant games he has played so far.
Guess Nakamura has been commenting your posts Ms. Polgar
Magnus is the triple world champion, Classic, Rapid, Blitz. Nakamura is none of those. Magnus has never lost to Nakamura, in fact his record against Nakamura is outstanding and embarrassingly bad for Nakamura. Truth is Magnus has PROVEN to be a far better player than Nakamura. Magnus has won countless top tournaments, Nakamura has won only one!! Wesley So, Liren Ding, Wei Yi, Fabio Caruana, Richard Rapport, and a few more on the way up the rankings are far more serious threats to Magnus in the future than Nakamura. It won’t be long before Nakamura starts sliding down the rankings. In fact I think Wesley So is already a better and more dangerous player Nakamura. If anyone is gonna be top dog next, it will be Wesley or Liren.
“Udugelig” – Literally “Not good for any use” / “Useless” / “Inept”
However, I’ve noticed Carlsen and the other Norwegian players use the term jokingly/tauntingly within the team. Sort of like a challenge and/or friendly taunt.
Nakamura is petulant little infant whose supreme arrogance blinds him to his own gaping inadequacies. He vastly over-estimates his own powers whilst trash talking a greatly superior player in Magnus. His moronic comments about Kasparov are further evidence that Nakamura has neither the intelligence nor ability to ever be a serious threat at the highest echelons of chess.
Keep whining Hikaru, at least it’s entertaining.
What a troll-y thread this is.
Anonymous August 28, 2014 at 10:15:00 PM CDT.
You are ridiculous. Are you part of the FIDE’s persecution campaign against Nakamura? The only reason he is not world champion is their organized campaign to cheat him. For example, do you really think he showed up late to the Olympiad without the nefarious involvement of K.I and Putin’s Kremlin? Oh, I guess I am supposed to believe it was pure coincidence and not due to Russian tampering with the airlines. Cheaters.
Nakamura’s embarrassingly bad performance at Sinquefield is yet another testament to his mediocrity. He considers himself the only challenge to Carlsen, yet he was absolutely CRUSHED in this tournament. He failed to win any games, and lost to both Carlsen and Caruana. Perhaps worst all of all were the two bungled losses to Topalov. I simply don’t understand how anyone could see Nakamura as a threat. Just look at the record and that will tell you the simple truth. He doesn’t have the magic you need to be a champ.